Loran Nordgren is a Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management.

Loran is one-part behavioral scientist, one-part lecturer, and one-part practitioner. As a behavioral scientist, his research explores the psychological forces that propel and prevent the adoption of new ideas and actions. His research has been published in leading journals such as Science, and is regularly discussed in prominent forums such as the Harvard Business Review. In recognition of his work, Professor Nordgren has received the Theoretical Innovation Award in experimental psychology. Loran’s book, The Human Element (coauthored with David Schonthal) describes his research on Friction Theory.

Loran teaches Leading Organizational Change. Its mission is to teach people how to create change in their organizations. A former Fulbright scholar, he has twice received Kellogg’s Management Teacher of the Year award. He was one of Poets & Quants’ 40 under 40 business school professors. Starting October of 2020, he became the Academic Director for Kellogg’s Executive MBA programs. As a practitioner, Loran has worked with companies throughout the world on a wide-range of behavior change problems, a process he calls Behavioral Design.

Fun Fact: Loran has a giant pet tortoise named Icarus that he hopes will be an intergenerational pet.

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